CIIC:Today's featured article/April 24, 2016
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In the summer of 1934, under the passive defense principle of former leader Wang Ming, the Red Army of the Central Soviet Area lost the fifth Counter-Campaign against the Kuomintang's "encirclement and suppression." High demands on military strength, manpower and resources made it difficult for the Red Army to fight the enemy inside the shrinking base area, so the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was forced to leave the base area and started the Long March. (More...)
